I’m Also on Instagram!

You can find me on Instagram at “JewellofaWriter” (also my handle for Facebook and Twitter). One of these days, I’ll figure out how to put a link to Instagram on this website!

Merry Christmas

This is my editor at Nimbus Publishing, the delightful Emily MacKinnon. During a recent “Nimbus employees recommend” promotion, Emily had this to say about Field Notes: A City Girl’s Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia: “I had never...

Book Review: Consumed By Ink

As I went to post this review here two weeks after it was published online, I noticed all the comments. Thank you to everyone for their interest in Field Notes — and please! Don’t skip the essay about old dogs. It’s not the saddest essay in the...

On the Other Side of the Notebook

Here is the link to my first interview, with our local newspaper (which publishes my Field Notes column): http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/news/local/2016/10/19/celebrating-life-in-rural-nova-scotia-4666895.html

December 17: Multi-Author Afternoon

How cool is this? Five of Cumberland County’s authors will be sitting down together at the Coles bookstore in the Amherst mall to sign books! This assembly of authors — this gaggle of geese, this clowder of cats, this barrel of monkeys, this parliament of...

Saturday, December 3

This Saturday from noon until 2 p.m. I’ll be signing books and meeting readers at the Coles bookstore at the Highland Square mall in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.